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Some authors consider the myths about [[Amazons]] ([[Eva Keuls]] argues that violent amazons are the evidence of gynophobia in [[Classical Athens]].<ref>Eva C. Keuls, "The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens", ISBN 0520079299, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Fke7pcstmv0C&pg=PA322&dq=%22gynophobia+is%22&sig=IR1HBPbbI65ejYYwtuwcMNPLyQc p. 332]</ref>{{not in citation|date=December 2011}}) and medieval [[witch-hunt]]s to be manifestations of gynophobia in human culture. |
Some authors consider the myths about [[Amazons]] ([[Eva Keuls]] argues that violent amazons are the evidence of gynophobia in [[Classical Athens]].<ref>Eva C. Keuls, "The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens", ISBN 0520079299, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Fke7pcstmv0C&pg=PA322&dq=%22gynophobia+is%22&sig=IR1HBPbbI65ejYYwtuwcMNPLyQc p. 332]</ref>{{not in citation|date=December 2011}}) and medieval [[witch-hunt]]s to be manifestations of gynophobia in human culture. |
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Gynophobia (from Greek γυνή - gunē, "woman"[1] and φόβος - phobos, "fear",[2] also spelled as gynephobia) is an abnormal fear of women. In the past, the Latin term was used, horror feminae, meaning "fear of women".[3]
The word caligynephobia is also coined to mean the fear of beautiful women.[4] For the latter one the expression venustraphobia is also used.[5] In many cases it may also be rooted in social phobia or social anxiety disorder.
Gynophobia used to be considered a driving force toward homosexuality. Havelock Ellis in his 1896 Studies in the Psychology of Sex wrote:
"It is, perhaps, not difficult to account for the horror — much stronger than that normally felt toward a person of the same sex — with which the invert often regards the sexual organs of persons of the opposite sex. It cannot be said that the sexual organs of either sex under the influence of sexual excitement are esthetically pleasing; they only become emotionally desirable through the parallel excitement of the beholder. When the absence of parallel excitement is accompanied in the beholder by the sense of unfamiliarity as in childhood, or by a neurotic hypersensitiveness, the conditions are present for the production of intense horror feminae or horror masculis, as the case may be. It is possible that, as Otto Rank argues in his interesting study, "Die Nacktheit in Sage und Dichtung," [sic] this horror of the sexual organs of the opposite sex, to some extent felt even by normal people, is embodied in the Melusine type of legend."[6]
Wilhelm Stekel in his book "Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty" discusses horror feminae of a male masochist.
Some authors consider the myths about Amazons (Eva Keuls argues that violent amazons are the evidence of gynophobia in Classical Athens.[7][failed verification]) and medieval witch-hunts to be manifestations of gynophobia in human culture.
Truth about human existence with phobias==See also==
- Androphobia: fear of men
- List of phobias
- Femme fatale
- Love shyness
References
- ^ γυνή, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ Raymond Joseph Corsini (1999) "The Dictionary of Psychology", ISBN 158391028X, p. 452
- ^ "Monk Phobia Dictionary". NBC Universal. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
- ^ Venus trap phobia
- ^ Works of Havelock Ellis at Project Gutenberg
- ^ Eva C. Keuls, "The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens", ISBN 0520079299, p. 332